humanities
n.
liberal art studies (as opposed to sciences) such as philosophy and literature and art
humanity
n.
human race, mankind; human nature; kindness, compassion, quality of being humane
Humanities
The humanities are those academic disciplines which study the
human condition using methods that are largely
analytic,
critical, or
speculative, as distinguished from the mainly
empirical approaches of the
natural and
social sciences. Conventionally the humanities include
ancient and modern languages and
literature,
history,
philosophy,
religion,
visual and
performing arts (including
music). Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are
anthropology,
area studies,
communications and
cultural studies, although these are often regarded as social sciences. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes described as "humanists". However, that term also describes the philosophical position of
humanism, which some "
antihumanist" scholars in the humanities reject.
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Humanities
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of Humanity
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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humanities
Noun
1. studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"
(synonym) humanistic discipline, liberal arts, arts
(hypernym) discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge
(hyponym) neoclassicism
humanity
Noun
1. all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
(synonym) world, human race, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man
(hypernym) group, grouping
(member-meronym) people
2. the quality of being humane
(hypernym) humaneness
3. the quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"
(synonym) humanness, manhood
(hypernym) quality
(attribute) human
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